B2B marketing insights for
those targeting a niche

Insights, learnings and stories from the world of B2B marketing and communications, direct from Velo’s B2B agency team

B2B Marketing in Professional Services

Professional services marketers face a distinctive challenge: they are selling expertise, trust and reputation rather than a tangible product, in environments where buyers are niche, expectations are high and the wrong agency or partner choice carries real risk. Making intangible value feel concrete, credible and differentiated is hard enough. Doing it across compliance-heavy sectors, with niche audiences who can see through generic claims, makes it harder still. And all of this while trying to prove that marketing can drive growth in firms where relationships and reputation have traditionally done the heavy lifting.

That means learning about proposition development and firm positioning, thought leadership strategy, personal brand and expert profiling, customer advocacy and the challenge of building credibility when client confidentiality limits what you can say, lead generation and nurturing across long consideration cycles, client experience and retention marketing, service line and sector messaging, brand architecture across complex firm structures, and how to earn authority in insurance, facilities management, property and built environment, business intelligence and analytics, and learning and EdTech markets.

Our insight articles explore how marketing works in professional services, with practical thinking on how firms can sharpen their positioning, communicate complex and intangible expertise with clarity, build the kind of trust that influences buying decisions and use marketing to drive commercial growth.

B2B Marketing Agency Selection, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology

Why use a pitch when selecting an agency? It puts too much pressure on a client’s brief.

 When looking for a new agency, common practice is to invite selected agencies to generate initial ideas, explain their approach, and share relevant experience around the problem you’re seeking to solve. Typically, most pitches involve an initial brief.  This brief is crucial for the agency, as it provides the basis for deciding whether to participate […]

B2B Marketing in Professional Services

How to create a high impact corporate sales deck

  Presentations are key for sales teams. The difference between a good and bad presentation is made up of many factors:  1. Take the reader on a journey  A good sales deck has a flow and a talk track that moves from today’s situation through to a better world by working with your company. We […]

B2B Content, B2B Marketing in Professional Services

Boosting B2B brand authority with content syndication 

  In B2B marketing, establishing your brand as a thought leader is essential for building trust and credibility with your audience. However, you are not the only ones looking to do this. It is saturated. You are competing for share of voice. It is not impossible, just harder than is perhaps used to be. One […]

B2B Creative, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, B2B websites

B2B Web Design Trends for Technology, Professional Services, and Manufacturing Brands 

  As part of our drive to embrace AI (Artificial Intelligence), this article was generated to write up the discussions in our internal Sector Inspector deep-dive workshops. In these sessions, our team works together to investigate, explore and understand a specific challenge. Through it, we drive deeper agency-wide knowledge into our sectors. Modern B2B websites […]

B2B Audiences, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology

Need a B2B persona for targeting faculty at higher education institutions?

Knowing your audience is the first step in constructing strong B2B marketing campaigns. You need to understand their motivations and pain points, but also how you can pragmatically reach them. This series of articles provides deep dives on the audiences we target most regularly here at Velo.  Faculty is an audience that is not well-known. […]

B2B Audiences, B2B Campaigns, B2B Content, B2B Marketing in Insurance, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, Customer Experience

Is there more to marketing effectively across EMEAR than just translating your marketing? Yes. 

Is there a country called EMEAR? Has anyone ever said they live or work in EMEAR?    Does everyone that lives in France have the same habits, preferences and challenges as people that live in Germany?    Of course not. So why do so many B2B marketers treat EMEAR as if it is all one homogeneous zone?  […]

B2B Content, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, Customer Experience

How can you increase the number of your B2B case studies that get signed off?

  As a B2B marketer, one of your key goals is to use thoughtful storytelling to create success stories that demonstrate your product or service’s power. Particularly for B2B marketers in the technology and professional services sector, success stories are key as a sales enablement tool. They are also essential for reinforcing credentials within the […]

B2B Content, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, B2B Research

How to conduct good discovery interviews

B2B marketing to a niche must be based on solid research. As a result, we’ve developed our own version of a discovery call in our mission to support companies targeting a niche. Traditionally used in sales, for us a discovery call is a chance to explore and understand complicated products and services quickly, especially in […]

B2B Audiences, B2B Campaigns, B2B Marketing in Insurance, B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology, B2B Strategy

Why should you target the 95% of your audience that are not in the market?

Over the years, there have been many B2B marketing studies that changed the industry’s thinking. You’ll be familiar with their headline results but often keen to know more, and to review the original source. This series of articles provides an overview of the research and how they apply for B2B marketers targeting a niche. Not […]

B2B Marketing in manufacturing, B2B Marketing in Professional Services, B2B Marketing in Technology

Velo presents… Leftover Turkey Quiche

The festive season is around the corner, as is that one question (almost as expected as bad cracker jokes) whilst sat round the dinner table… ‘‘what do you do again?’’. We know it’s not always easy to explain to family and friends but rest assured we get your values and know the impact your work […]

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